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In some parts of Africa, circumcision is pretty much limited to a pair of tongs, and a sharp, machete-like chopping knife. You hope his aim is good.
The amazing liberal vapors over President Bushs use of the word "Democrat" to describe, er, Democrats, continues. In an NPR interview with Juan Williams, President Bush claimed it was a simple mistake in his State of the Union speech, but liberals quickly found more of these grievous offenses in searching speech texts at the White House website. Certain left-wing media critics who lay face down in worship at the feet of Hillary Clinton are now insisting that the word "Democrat" is a "smear" and an "oft-used Republican slur." The Washington Post and The New York Times each produced stories on Bush's denial of this microscopic scandal. (Clay Waters handled it at Times Watch here.)
But my favorite fuss comes from former Newsweek reporter and Carter speechwriter Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker, who says the plain D-word is "jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams rat." He then imagined Republicans want to destroy the Democrats like Israels enemies want to wipe out Israel, and compared them to a street gang:
An alternative view is that its called the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party itself takes this view, and many nonpartisan authorities agree. The American Heritage College Dictionary, for example, defines the noun "Democratic Party" as "One of the two major US political parties, owing its origin to a split in the Democratic-Republican Party under Andrew Jackson in 1828." (It defines "Democrat n" as "A Democratic Party member" and "Democratic adj" as "Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Democratic Party," but gives no definition forindeed, makes no mention of"Democrat Party n" or "Democrat adj".) Other dictionaries, and reference works generally, appear to be unanimous on these points. The broader literate public also comes down on the "Democratic" side, as indicated by frequency of usage. A Google search for "Democratic Party" yields around forty million hits. "Democrat Party" fetches fewer than two million.
Theres no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. "Democrat Party" is a slur, or intended to bea handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but "Democrat Party" is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams "rat." At a slightly higher level of sophistication, its an attempt to deny the enemy the positive connotations of its chosen appellation. During the Cold War, many people bridled at obvious misnomers like "German Democratic Republic," and perhaps there are some members of the Republican Party (which, come to think of it, has been drifting toward monarchism of late) who genuinely regard the Democratic Party as undemocratic. Perhaps there are some who hope to induce it to go out of existence by refusing to call it by its name, a la terming Israel "the Zionist entity." And no doubt there are plenty of others who say "Democrat Party" just to needle the other side while signalling solidarity with their ownthe partisan equivalent of flashing a gang sign.
The WashPost account from Michael Abramowitz added this nugget, that Democrat-leaning White House reporters were hyperventilating in the briefing room:
White House press secretary Tony Snow seemed peeved with reporters asking about the Bush mispronunciation at his morning press "gaggle" yesterday, accusing the reporters of making "three mountains out of a molehill" and suggesting that the press was not much interested when Democrats bashed Bush with language calling him a "loser" or a "liar."
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I'd a swore this was Scrappleface. Reality mirrors fiction. Skeery.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
02/03/2007 9:29 Comments ||
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Theres no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. "Democrat Party" is a slur, or intended to bea handy way to express contempt.
There's no mystery at all - I say 'Democrat' all the time as a slur!
Posted by: Steve White ||
02/03/2007 10:57 Comments ||
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"Democrat" with accent on the "rat" just isn't insulting enough. I've been using the term "Quislingcrat" in my blog comments for years...whaddaya think, Rantburgers?
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OK, folks. How long until they find someway to frame criticism of the Democrat Party to be a hate crime?
Oh, BTW, Asshole Arkin, in his "apology" piece after he called US troops mercenaries, wrote the following:
They hide behind the constitution and the flag and then spew an anti-Democrat, anti-liberal, anti-journalism, anti-dissent, and anti-citizen message that reflects a certain contempt for the American people.
Huh. Why aren't any lefties hyperventilating over that? Probably because they're too busy shaking their heads in agreement with everything else he said.
Posted by: Robert Crawford ||
02/03/2007 13:53 Comments ||
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"OK, folks. How long until they find someway to frame criticism of the Democrat Party to be a hate crime?"
Figure about two years from now; Hillary Clinton will put the Fairness In Speech Act before Congress less than a week after her inauguration, and it will be quickly passed by the House and Senate (with all 82 Senate Democrats and all 393 House Democrats voting yea). The only debate will be over whether enforcement authority should be in the hands of the FCC, which will honcho the New Fairness Doctrine (like the one we used to have, except on steroids + PCP) to kill conservative talk radio, or whether it should devolve to the new Federal Fairness Enforcement Administration, which will be created to ensure that everything is always fair, for everybody, everywhere, in every way, that all outcomes are equal and that nobody is unequal to anybody else (except for those who are more equal, of course). Barbara Boxer will try to get her pet project, the new Gender Equity Administration, involved, but will not succeed.
All of this, naturally, will be done For The Children™...
(Just thought I'd share the nightmare... heh, heh. Think it can't happen?)
Posted by: Dave D. ||
02/03/2007 16:52 Comments ||
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Dem-o-crats!
Eat fried rats!
Posted by: Mike ||
02/03/2007 17:10 Comments ||
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So, how are they going to make me listen w/this "Fairness Doctrine?"
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I'm telling you people, DemocRAT and just plain 'Rat are hurtful and offensive terms that cause those offended to withdraw from all discussion. I much prefer the less inflammatory and more inclusive term "Rodent Party."
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GWB just joked in a meeting with members of Congress - "I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party." Apparently the meeting went pretty well.
I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device that has been given to me from my government for the purpose of taking the lives of others.
I sweat, and I am tired. My back aches from the loads I carry. Young American boys look to me to direct them in a manner that will someday allow them to see their families again...and yet, I too, am just a boy....my age not but a few years more than that of the ones I lead. I am stressed, I am scared, and I am paranoid...because death is everywhere. It waits for me, it calls to me from around street corners and windows, and it is always there.
There are the demons that follow me, and tempt me into thoughts and actions that are not my own...but that are necessary for survival. I've made compromises with my humanity. And I am not alone in this. Miles from me are my brethren in this world, who walk in the same streets...who feel the same things, whether they admit to it or not.
And to think, I volunteered for this...
And I am ignorant to the rest of the world...or so I thought.
But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn't fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.
I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the word boys and girls, because that's what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.
People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy's brutality because it's against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a cowards war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation's news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes...only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society...and they are becoming our enemy.
Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word "quagmire" around and compare this war to Vietnam. In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam. Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even for their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war.
Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.
It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.
America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. Its not like World War II, where people rationed food and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a servicemember, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you.
But it affects us. And when it is over and the troops come home and they try to piece together what's left of them after their service...where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to comfort and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple years of their lives, most of which have been spent dodging death and wading through the deaths of their friends? They will be where they always are, somewhere far away, where the horrors of the world can't touch them. Somewhere where they can complain about things they will never experience in their lifetime; things that the young men and women of America have willingly taken upon their shoulders.
We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause and see it to its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor...we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It's supporting our President, our troops and our cause.
Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn't.
Let's stop all the political nonsense, let's stop all the bickering, let's stop all the bad news and let's stand and fight!
Isn't that what America is about anyway?
Sergeant Eddie Jeffers is a US Army Infantryman serving in Ramadi, Iraq.
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I had a cheese-ass easy job in Iraq, but my alienation from most of America and especially the "enlightened" sectors is even more acute than that depicted by Sgt. Jeffers. I felt it before I came back, and it's actually getting worse, not better.
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Tommy
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide,
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.
Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.
You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
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This was heartbreaking to read. It's pretty much what my son said (although expressed here far better) when he returned from Iraq in early 2005.
"People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war."
They're not ignorant; they're malicious. And they most certainly DO realize the effects of their words and actions on this war, and on those fighting it: those effects are by design, and are intended.
"...my alienation from most of America and especially the "enlightened" sectors is even more acute than that depicted by Sgt. Jeffers. I felt it before I came back, and it's actually getting worse, not better."
That's the way it is with my son, too.
This is not going to end well.
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02/03/2007 12:49 Comments ||
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This just makes my stomach churn. God I thought it would not be the same, not let it happen again. I have not seen the hate from our public toward soldiers like in the past, just flat ignorance. It seems they don't want to know, sort of wish the bad away. Soldiers have a bond, unlike any other. The bond of knowledge, not the shit philosophers from the universities wo hide in there warm offices, but from the reality derived from holding on when your scared shitless and cant run away because you friend is trusting you with his life. The paranoia will fade, you will learn to sleep soundly again, but the wall beteen those who know and the ignorant will always be there. At first i was angry, then I found them amusing, now i fear for our nation.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/03/2007 14:38 Comments ||
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"God I thought it would not be the same, not let it happen again. I have not seen the hate from our public toward soldiers like in the past, just flat ignorance."
Give it time; it's coming.
I figure that by the time the next Presidential election reaches its ignominious conclusion, the Leftists who are now the Democratic Party will have managed to whip large segments of the public into full-blown contempt for the people who have been giving their lives to protect us.
I remember coming home on leave Christmas 1970, in the airport. Walking down the concourse from my arrival gate, passing some longhair: "Baby Killer!"
Yes, it's coming.
Posted by: Dave D. ||
02/03/2007 15:07 Comments ||
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I sure hope to hell time proves you wrong Dave,for your son and for this nation. I was too young to see how it was in the late 60's, just how it got later. as long as I'm in the bar, soldiers will get a round on me, and their back covered from the left.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/03/2007 15:20 Comments ||
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Look for a strong gun control push by the Left, to pre-empt armed attack by those who are losing patience. Look also for them harassing soldiers until someone just home from the war snaps and hurts one of them -- just the excuse they can use to whip up support for gun seizure/control.
As they open the borders and then pay jizya to Islam -- but that is the later step. First they need to isolate and try to disarm us, who are now their sworn enemies.
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"I was too young to see how it was in the late 60's..."
You don't remember the Summers Of Fire, then? '67, '68, riots, cities burning?
It can get bad. REAL bad...
Posted by: Dave D. ||
02/03/2007 15:34 Comments ||
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I was 9 in '68, so I don't remember it much, but it seems the will to stop the anarchy and violence is the biggest part. Stop that shit like the graffiti on the capital steps, before it starts. Peaceful demonstrations or heads get cracked.
Today, most of the high school and college youth are apolitical, wishing to advance their lives rather than fringe antiwar(but supposedly 'pro-troop') causes. If they can't demonize the military, and without the draft, they have trouble, then they can't rally against a giant Military-Industrial Complex sending involuntary draftees to their death. Big diff in my mind. There is no depth to the antiwar feelings, most Americans want to win and get out
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/03/2007 16:14 Comments ||
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It would be interesting to see the reaction to a few well-placed IED's in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Manhattan, Chevy Chase, etc. Let the flame touch the "liberal elite" ensconsed in their patrician enclaves and see what happens next. The antiwar movement of the 60's and 70's was funded by the KGB to ennervate America. I wonder if the current crop of a$$holes is funded by the Saudis.
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I've been insulting war protesters to their face. Its too cold here now, so we have none outside, but when spring comes they'll be back.
We used to get them at a place near my house. Last summer there was a small group of 6 protesting. One of the assholes was wearing some shit he must have gotten from an Army surplus store. As soon as I saw the sign he was holding, I locked up my brakes and got out of the car. The sign said "killer". I walked up to this guy - I'm guessing he was about 20, they all looked like college kids - and just as I was about to start talking to him, I drilled him in face instead. I stood there long enough to watch him hit the ground before I got back in my.
I never saw protesters at that spot again.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
02/03/2007 18:13 Comments ||
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MIKE!!!! You my hero! I will drink a toast to you tonight. I thought I was having fun when I ran my mountain bike through the literature stack and the protesters behind the whit house during gulf war 1. Knocked the drum they were beating off the stand.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/03/2007 18:51 Comments ||
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Dave, I was nine as well. I remember the helicopters on TV and the body counts. Thats about it. I guess its where I got my love for helicopters and distain for the media.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/03/2007 18:52 Comments ||
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Pan, I would have paid to see someone go crashing through a group of protesters!
Posted by: Mike N. ||
02/03/2007 19:12 Comments ||
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I remember it all too well. I also remember the last time I saw my best friend in the whole world. Lance Cpl. William Clyde Northington,Co. A, 9th Marines, my cousin, was killed March 19, 1969 in the Au Shau valley, South Vietnam. He was awarded the Silver Star and I have his Purple Heart. I've taken every opportunity to harass anti-soldier (these people are cowards) demonstrators ever since. Mike, I'll buy ya a drink or three. It's easy, especially now that there is no draft, to denegrate the young men and women who volunteer to serve their Country when one doesn't have to sacrifice anything but a little time. They have no clue what true sacrifice to one's Country and to noble ideas really is. Bugwits.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
02/03/2007 19:25 Comments ||
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I don't know what all goes on in the mind of someone that insults our soldiers, I'm sure a psychologist could explain some of the many facets involved in making a person do that. Myself, I don't care about all that head shrinker gobbledygoo, it's all self righteous bullshit to me.
I think if guys like Mullah Murtha and Tehran John got beat for calling our soldiers cold blooded killers and terrorists, that kind of behavior would be less fashionable.
If we ever get another civil war, I'm on the side with the men and women that know how to fight. And that aint the fuckin' media.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
02/03/2007 19:43 Comments ||
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Deacon, you sure as hell don't owe me any drinks. I should be buying you a few. Some Scotch perhaps? We can even listen to some Steely Dan. We can drink Scotch whiskey all night long. Though I would prefer to skip the die behind the wheel part. Lol!
Posted by: Mike N. ||
02/03/2007 19:46 Comments ||
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Actually, Mike, I'm listening to Steely Dan right now with a tumbler of Wild Turkey. If you are ever around East Tennessee stop by.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
02/03/2007 19:56 Comments ||
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If I should ever have the misfortune of funding myself in easy Tennesse ;) I'll look ya up. I think its going to be Scotch for me tonight. Or perhaps old no. 7. I might have to break out Aja now that I think about it.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
02/03/2007 20:10 Comments ||
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That's finding and east. This damn auto spell thing!
Posted by: Mike N. ||
02/03/2007 20:13 Comments ||
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Genital mutilation and forced marriage occurs even among educated Muslims in some countries, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in a shocking account of her early life in Somalia - an excerpt from her new book
TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI)
For the third time in its history, Islam is trying to bring 'the true faith' to the rest of the world. However, this time is particularly dangerous, according to one of the world`s leading authorities on Muslim history.
In a series of lectures at Israeli academic institutions, Princeton University Professor Bernard Lewis talked of the widespread Muslim-Shiite belief that time has come for a final global struggle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. We should give fundamentalist Muslims the boot from the West. And we should be championing secularism in their cess pools.
'The fact that some of the societies are acquiring, or will soon acquire ... weapons of destructive power beyond Hitler`s wildest dreams ... is something that we should be very concerned about,' he said. There should be no American opposition to US anti-proliferation measures against Iran's Ayatollahs. Indulgence of conditions that would allow a preventable introduction of nuclear tipped ICBMs in Iran, would be unthinkable to any Ameican.
Muslim believers consider themselves 'the fortunate recipients of God`s final message to humanity and it is their duty not to keep is selfishly to themselves ... (but) to bring it to the rest of mankind,' Lewis noted.
In their first attempt to do so, they emerged from the Arabian Peninsula and conquered vast territories from Iran across North Africa to Spain, Portugal and parts of Italy. Converts conquered Russian lands and established an Islamic regime in Eastern Europe. There are even reports of an Arab raid into Switzerland. But that attempt to conquer Europe failed, and the Crusaders recovered the Christian holy places in Jerusalem.
In the second round, the Ottoman Turks crossed southeastern Europe and reached Vienna. Twice they tried to capture it and failed. Western imperialism halted and reversed the Ottoman push.
The current, third invasion, is not done by armed conquest or with migrating hordes, but by a combination of migration, demography, 'self denigration and self abasement, totally apologetic,' Lewis said...
(via Blatherwatch blog)
It didn't take long, once justice got up on its feet. In the end, not even Warren Buffett could change Mike Webb's legal destiny.
In a bench trial before Judge Julie Spector, the former talk host and liberal KIRO night time personality finally got a verdict and sentencing for his bungling, nearly transparent attempt to defraud Geico Insurance into paying for a car accident he'd had with an uninsured driver before he bought a policy.
Prosecutor Nancy Balin called it an "attempted theft." Judge Spector said, said the evidence clearly showed that Webb "blatantly and with arrogance" defrauded the insurance company.
(After his completed trial in September was declared a mistrial, after a melee in front of the courthouse that landed Webb handcuffed in a police car to a Harborview rubber room).
This time, both parties agreed to a "stipulated trial, with the facts of the case presented in the original trial, and heard by Judge Spector and considered without a jury or re-calling witnesses.
The prosecutor and the defense attorney, Mark Larranaga each made a statement and brief rebuttals; the judge made her judgment shortly thereafter.
Her verdict: guilty as charged. "Only one person made things difficult for Mr. Webb," she said, "and that was Mr. Webb."
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Liberal Talk Show Host Commits Fraud, Has Paranoid Delusions, . . . Mental Health, etc.
And this is unusual?
Posted by: Mike ||
02/03/2007 16:13 Comments ||
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OK, True confessions time: From time to time I would turn the radio on while this arrogant POS was on. It got to be my own personal little game to see how long before he would turn some listener's differing viewpoint into an 'anti-gay' attitiude. He was openly gay and would take any topic and turn it into some twisted thing.
The papers' stories of the trial while in progress were a scream; everybody, except Our Hero, could see what was up. I think he got off light due to his celeb/gay status myself.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) 
